Your Vigor For Life Appalls Me.

I Knew I Was Weird By The Time I Was Four. I Knew I Wasn't Like Other Boys. I Knew I Was More Fearful. I Didn't Like The Rough And Tumble Most Boys Were Into. I Knew I Was A Sissy.

Killing Yourself Is A Major Commitment, It Takes A Kind Of Courage. Most People Just Lead Lives Of Cowardly Desperation. It's Kinda Half Suicide Where You Just Dull Yourself With Substances.

I Was A Child Of American Popular Culture. All I Did As A Kid Was What I Could Get At The Local Supermarket Or The Dime Store. Nothing Else Was Seen. Plus What Was On Television, Or The Movie Theatre. That Was It.

As A Kid Growing Up In The 1950s I Became Acutely Aware Of The Changes Taking Place In American Culture And I Must Say I Didn't Much Like It. I Witnessed The Debasement Of Architecture, And I Could See A Decline In The Quality Of Things Like Comic Books And Toys, Things Made For Kids. Old Things Seemed To Have More Life, More Substance, More Humanity In Them.

The French Hold Onto Their Traditions. I Was Always So Alienated In America. My Work Was This Constant Reaction To That.